[Talk-ca] Stats Canada building project

[Alan Richards]

It's still a different license for each city, province, or organisation,
and the current opinion is that each different license needs to go through
the same multi-month review to be approved for OSM.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:48 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> T.B. have what they call a Municipal Open Data kit which basically has the
> same license as the city of Ottawa uses plus how to use it.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 27 September 2017 at 18:40, Stewart Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But they can't use OGL-CA v2 cos municipalities aren't federal. And
>> anything but the actual few already approved licences need a multi-month
>> review.
>>
>>  Stewart
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2017 18:28, "James" <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> other then have them change their license from say ogl-ca v1 to ogl-cav2
>>>
>>> theres not much we can do from a legal stand point. ogl-ca v1 puts too
>>> many restrictions
>>>
>>> On Sep 27, 2017 6:21 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do we want to move this discussion forward?  Do we need to set up a
>>>> time to talk on the phone? I am willing to help coordinate logistics.
>>>>
>>>> On 2017-09-17 10:55 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-09-17 10:40 AM, john whelan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> They'd like to extend it across Canada so now might be the time to
>>>>>> think
>>>>>> about the project.
>>>>>>
>>>>> That sounds good. Despite some prodding, the Licence Working Group
>>>>> (LWG)
>>>>> hasn't got back to me with any updates on how they want to handle the
>>>>> Toronto or Ontario licences. I first contacted them in March, so if it
>>>>> takes them six months or more to look at the licence, then this import
>>>>> is a multi year (if not multi-decade) project. Remember, LWG has
>>>>> decided
>>>>> that *every* Canadian licence variant needs their sign-off.
>>>>>
>>>>> Denis Carr (open data lead) from Toronto has been on board since the
>>>>> spring, and I hope hasn't forgotten us.
>>>>>
>>>>> Toronto has nice building outlines (embedded in the 3D Massing data
>>>>> set,
>>>>> so we can pull out base elevation and height). We also have address
>>>>> points already in the middle of buildings.
>>>>>
>>>>> It also is of great help that the Esri Community Imagery includes some
>>>>> very nice municipal air photos for verification.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Stewart
>>>>>
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